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Watching television : hermeneutics, reception, and popular culture

Title
Watching television : hermeneutics, reception, and popular culture / Tony Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Tony, 1947-
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Polity Press, 1993.

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Description
ix, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Television viewers
  • Television programs > Evaluation
  • slide viewers (hand held devices)
  • viewers (observers)
  • spectators (event observers)
  • Fernsehen
  • Fernsehforschung
  • Fernsehprogramm
  • Fernsehwirkung
  • Publikum
  • Kijkgedrag
  • Televisie
  • Receptie
  • Filosofische aspecten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-222) and index.
Contents
Notes on Television Programmes -- 1. Television: Familiarity and Phenomenology. 1.1. Audience and Life-world. 1.2. Beginning the Analysis: the Breakfast-time Viewer. 1.3. Television's Familiarity and 'Personal Sense' -- 2. Television: Hermeneutics and Horizons. 2.1. Understanding as a 'Fusion of Horizons'. 2.2. Identification and Social Roles. 2.3. Identification and New Perspectives. 2.4. Post-structuralist Hermeneutics -- 3. Audiences: Constructions of Sense. 3.1. Watching Television. 3.2. Viewers and Varieties of Meaning. 3.3. Serials, Sense and Identification -- 4. Viewing and the Veridical Effect. 4.1. The Audience's Horizon of Expectations. 4.2. Identification and the Veridical Effect. 4.3. Producing the Veridical Effect.
ISBN
  • 0745607225
  • 9780745607221
  • 0745616364
  • 9780745616360
LCCN
92040039
OCLC
  • ocm27035819
  • 27035819
  • SCSB-1972801
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library